Winter has return for its last hurrah this week , bestow moth-eaten gales , hail and sleet upon us poor gardener . As I place off across London ’s Hanover Square yesterday , umbrella clench in hand , I spotted , between the spoke , a handsome , informal - look low tree smother in brilliant yellow flush , tossed by the wind .
Having persuaded a colleague to dodge a flow of disastrous hack in guild to look up to the tree up nigh , I was mildly bemused . It appeared to be a Acacia dealbata , with willow - like disposition . Rather than get us any surfactant I take photo before give-up the ghost in hunting of shelter and a positivist recognition .
Back at home I consulted intensity 1 ofThe Botanical Gardener by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix . Turning directly to the three-fold page spread consecrate to the genus Acacia , there it was , in glorious Technicolor , Acacia longifolia , the favorable wattle . My enigma was solved more quickly than I could have traverse Regent Street .
Acacia longifoliais a tight - growing shaggy-coated bush or small tree about twenty foundation tall and just as spacious . It hails from South Eastern Australia , where it ’s probably considered about as exciting and unusual as hawthorn or older in England . Long , lightsome - green leaves product line branches smothered in fragrant , golden - scandalmongering flowers at the last of winter . Acacia longifoliais salt large-minded , making it utilitarian for seaside experimental condition . It is frost and drought resistant ; hardy to about -5ºC , and presumptively near with pollution too . The industrial plant was originally collect by Joseph Banks , the botanist on Captain James Cook ’s exploration of Australia in 1770 . It was offered by baby’s room in England as betimes as 1788 .
Acacia longifoliaought to be perfectly suited to our seaside garden , although it ’s a piddling large for the space I have left to constitute . The leaf and flower do not possess the feathery cuteness ofAcacia dealbata , but are much more elegant and architectural . If and when I decide to altercate our greenhouse to open out the garden , Acacia longifoliacould make a magnificent specimen for the sheltered space that this would create . Alas , I can find no UK nurseries offering plants , but seeds could another selection . Either room , the favourable lappet strike me as an ideal tree for our ever warmer , more roily climate and one that would give a colorful , contemporaneous sharpness to small suburban and urban center gardens .
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